Re: Some scary stuff down under

From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 00:34:36 MDT


Ha! Typical doublethink- ISP customers are required to have a net nanny
program, and to solemnly say that they're using it... but there's nothing
in that bill to actually stop people from reading "bad" content. The scary
stuff will come in the next law, mandating penalties for customers who turn
off the state-mandated censors.

Sheeesh. People forced to be their own jailers. I wanna move to Mars.

Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> Under their new net access law, citizens are required to pay for their
> own censorship.
>
> http://technology.news.com.au/news/4276366.htm
> --
> "A man makes a picture/A moving picture/Through light projected/He can
> see himself up close/*Gotta meet her there*/A man captures colour/
> *She's your destination*/A man likes to stare/*There's no sleeping
> there*/He turns his money into light/*She's imagination*/To look for
> her/She is the dreamer/She's imagination" -U2, Lemon

--
Doug Jones, Freelance Rocket Plumber


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